33.3.2

One of my most favorite discoveries last year was the “33.3″ art show curated by Dana Lechtenberg in Elkader, Iowa. Some of my most favorite illustrators submitted pieces for a show that “reinterpreted and re-imagined existing album covers.” So excited to be apart of “Thirty-Three and Third Point Two!”

Here’s the artist statement I submitted with my piece:

“Shout.” Where do I even begin with “Shout.” The second 12″ single from Tears for Fears’ Songs from the Big Chair. Easily one of my favorite albums of all time and by far one of my most favorite tracks of all time. Not sure I appreciated it in the moment, but I realize now I was lucky to be raised by a couple-a music loving hippies who had fallen prey to the shitty electronics and spacey guitars of the 80′s. I was only four when Songs from the Big Chair came out but even now it evokes nothing but warm memories. And I’ve grown to love it. More than anything. Originally setting out to illustrate Songs from the Big Chair, I thought there was a lot more potential to be had in “Shout’s” cover photography.

And for the record, while by most modern production standards you could call the electronics of the 80′s “shitty”—I happen to genuinely love that trash more than life itself.